Tokyo: My obsession with China led me to become the king of Japanese entertainment.

Hiroshi Nagano picked up his phone, opened Japanese Twitter, and looked at the heated debate on it, feeling a sense of unreality.

Data is, after all, just cold, hard stuff. The data summary about Ultraman Tiga in China that Jun Sakurada showed them was shockingly large, but in the end, it was just numbers.

Hiroya Nagano has been busy these days. In addition to practicing the content he prepared specifically for his Chinese fans, he also has several regular weekly variety shows to record, as well as a lot of other work to do.

It wasn't until his teammates informed him in the last two days that he started to seriously pay attention to the related content and trends, his approach resembling that of an awkward student.

There's no way around it; although he's still a glamorous idol, Hiroshi Nagano is already 47 years old, which is considered old.

Unfortunately, the agency he works for is Johnny & Associates.

Johnny's management is strange.

If you say their management is strict, that's true. Contact between idols and fans is tightly controlled. If you don't spend money through official channels, you can forget about seeing even a picture of your idol.

But if you say their management is lax, they manage to expose new scandals almost every year. JR had a date with girls from the neighboring Sakamichi Group, a debuted member picked up underage girls at a bar, and there are even more perverted things that we don't dare to mention.

All I can say is... the management is very targeted.

Hiroshi Nagano has been in the industry for 24 years, or about 30 years if you include his trainee period. During that time, social media was strictly controlled, so his understanding of streaming media and the Internet was naturally low.

The actors playing Daigo were clearly not as adept at adapting to the technology of the new era as Daigo himself.

But even though he was clumsy, when he heard that the children were striving to see him, he still wanted to go and see them.

Once you start looking, you become completely absorbed.

The comments were overwhelming, the attacks were massive, and there were many words he couldn't understand at all, such as wheelchairs and sprints, as well as some completely incomprehensible repetitions and symbols.

He wondered if he was falling behind the times. Oh, it seems there's no need to doubt it. It would be strange if a 47-year-old man with restricted internet access could keep up with the times.

But from those parts that he could barely understand, he discerned a different meaning.

There was anger and irritability, but even more so, there was longing.

Daigo, that's what the Chinese kids call him. Although in Nagano Hiroshi's memory, that character seems to be called Madoka Daigo, but that's not important.

If they say it's Daigo, then it's Daigo.

Hiroshi Nagano found this feeling strange. A country he had hardly ever set foot in, and a generation of young people, because of a role he played decades ago, regarded him as the light of their childhood.

Do I really deserve their love?

Nagano Hiroshi suddenly couldn't contain himself.

He has been an idol for over twenty years, and his fans have come and gone, including many long-time fans who have liked him for over twenty years.

But he was still amazed by the enthusiasm of these fans who had never met him and whose understanding of him was probably extremely limited.

Being at Johnny & Associates, Hiroshi Nagano was well aware of how the star-making model guided the Japanese fans' affection and how exposure gradually cultivated it.

But what about the Chinese?

Having been an idol for over twenty years, he and V6 have always been role models among Johnny's groups, with no scandals, no legal troubles, obedience to the agency's management, no causing trouble, and no vying for credit.

But now, he really wants to break the agency's ban.

He wanted to say something to the children, to talk to them, to thank them, and to apologize.

He felt he had failed their approval and love.

He put down his phone and instinctively turned his head to look around.

He has just finished filming his regular program "Yojigoji Days," and the area around him is full of busy staff, including those from TV Tokyo and Johnny's.

However, both sides maintained an attitude as if nothing had happened.

Even though Japanese Twitter is already in an uproar, even though V6 is at the very center of the controversy, even though all you need to do is pick up your phone and you'll know what kind of storm Johnny's is facing.

But nobody mentioned it, and nobody even glanced at it.

It was as if the storm would simply dissipate on its own if everyone pretended nothing was wrong.

Nagano Hiroshi used to not pay attention to rhythm or care about these things, but now, looking at this false peace, he only felt a chill down his spine.

What are they doing? What are they stalling for? Do they think there's something that can save them?

But now that things have come to this, what killer moves do they have to target those children?

Hiroshi Nagano couldn't understand it.

He picked up his phone, left the area, and found a quiet rooftop.

I initially wanted to call my teammates, Masayuki Sakamoto and Yoshihiko Inohara, but they're probably all busy with their own work right now and won't have much free time.

She wanted to call Hideaki Takizawa again, but inexplicably, when she dialed the number, it pointed to a different person.

"...Hey? Nagano-senpai? What can I do for you?" The boy on the other end of the phone sounded a little surprised, but quickly changed to a warm tone.

Hiroshi Nagano suddenly had a sudden realization.

According to Hideaki Takizawa, the boy opposite him was not only cunning and clever, but also ambitious, full of bad intentions, and his mind was full of ideas on how to kill people without any repercussions. He was an extremely difficult genius to deal with.

But he treated me with unusual kindness and obvious respect.

Nagano Hiroshi couldn't understand it before, but now, after reading those posts, he seems to have figured something out.

Jun Sakurada is very similar to those Chinese children, quite a lot.

That was the ultimate reason he made that call.

"Jun, it's like this..." Nagano Hiroshi took a deep breath and poured out his feelings over the past few days, including secret joy, emotion, worry, and many other complex emotions.

He heard a long silence on the other end of the phone, then the boy seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and smiled with relief: "It's best that you think that way."

"For me, the thing I fear most is that you will see Chinese fans as destabilizing factors, trouble, or even threats because of this incident."

"If that's really what you think, then there's really nothing I can do."

Nagano Hiroshi's tone was resolute: "How could that be! How could I possibly think that way!"

"So they weren't wrong about who they were looking for." Jun Sakurada smiled happily.

"Senior, please rest assured, the battle reports from headquarters won't last long. Even if they can temporarily stabilize public opinion and prevent it from collapsing, the troublesome aftereffects will eventually be unavoidable."

"So all you need to do is prepare for future events, and the other problems will soon be solved."

At this point, he seemed to remember something and added:

"Of course, if you really want to express your feelings, then... please prepare something for me."

"I will show them."